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    How did kyle manage to break the crib?

    Kyle and Alana jumped constantly from one end to another. Eventually, one of the metal hooks holding the springs broke in half like a twig.

    those kids are so independent, before you know it they'll be leveling up your characters in your video games for you. :P

    Not for lack of trying.

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    Typical morning

    Kyle comes into our room and gets his and Alana's milk out of our fridge. He gives her the bottle while he pushes the crib up to the changing table. Alana climbs up to it as Kyle pushes the rocking chair to the changing table. Alana climbs down to the rocking chair and then to the floor. Both show up in our room slurping their milk and saying hi.

    They then go downstairs as we slowly drag ourselves out of bed asking each other to check on the kids. Kyle makes steps with his toy buckets against the entertainment center tossing the toys all over the floor. Why do we even bother picking up toys when all I want to do is throw most of them away? He grabs the Incredibles DVD, his favorite at the moment, and places it into the DVD player. He starts up the TV, changing the channel to AV appropriately (channel down once) and pushes play.

    If they don't have enough milk, Kyle grabs the milk out of the fridge, two straws, and both slurp away straight from the jug. We scramble downstairs in time for "we demand food now" time as daddy is rushed out the door.

    Ah, the joys of parenthood.

    New news

    Kyle broke his sister's crib today. One of the hooks snapped, so the mattress is on the floor and pillows block the openings. It'll have to do until we can replace the hook or get a toddler bed.

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    Can we agree that the US is trying and be positive about our efforts? I've been getting depressed and frustrated over all the negative attacks on this forum against our country's environmental efforts when there are positives to be heard. We're not perfect, fine, can we give the US a pat on the head and say good job at least a couple times? Good job on the renewable energy development US! Congratulations for developing more efficient ways to burn coal until we can remove our dependence on coal! Something? That's what our school systems do nowadays, they get gold stars as long the kids say their trying. I'm not saying we need a passing grade, but a gold star here and there would help.

    It's getting to the point where all the negativeness of these biodome and news articles are making me less willing to do anything for anyone. That'll never happen, of course, but I'm probably going to stop reading these depressing categories from now on. I guess my point is, a positive article about our country here and there would be a welcome change. If I'm in the wrong here, please delete my posts in this thread and let me know I should avoid these categories from now on. Thanks.

    I have moved my comment to a spoiler tag. Read it if you want. Based on another thread of how little my opinions are viewed I shall refrain from reading or posting to this category from here on out.

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    I believe in creationism. I have no problem with a scientist believing in creationism. What sparked the life into that very first single-cell amoeba that would later evolve into humans? I say God did and it was his plan from the very beginning. My opinion anyways.

    If the biologist was vehemently preaching his beliefs in creationism without offering the possibility of evolution, then I'd say he wasn't open minded to new ideas and the institute could question his effectiveness as a scientist. I'd say the same thing if the opposite was true.

    The world believed the sun rotated around the Earth for a long time, because that is what they saw happening. It took a long time before another idea could even be accepted without persecution from religion of all places. I believe the same persecution is happening again in reverse, with science persecuting any idea, religious or other, that doesn't fit into its well-defined little box. That box changes shape each day as we learn more and isn't as well-defined as science would like to think. My opinion only.

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    U.S. Sen. John Kerry, who arrived in Bali on Sunday, cautioned, however, that one reason the U.S. Senate didn't support the 1997 pact was because it did not cover fast-growing developing countries like China and India.

    "Everybody globally must somehow be part of this solution," he said.

    All countries must be equal in any treaty or the other parties will become a worst problem than the current leaders in pollution. 1997 would have been during the Clinton administration, so both political parties have rejected this protocol now.
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17522363/

    EU lawyers still have to draw up the detailed rules specifying how the deal will be enforced, however Barroso said the legislation “will be subject to all instruments of community law.” That implies that the EU’s executive arm would be able to launch legal action at the bloc’s high court that could lead to the imposition of heavy fines on countries that violate the targets.

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20102028/from/RSS/

    The United States is not a party to the Kyoto agreement and large developing countries such as China, India and Brazil are exempt from its obligations. They are afraid they will be called on to reduce emissions after 2012, which would hurt their economic growth and poverty-eradication efforts.

    Heavy fines on countries that violate the targets. In my opinion, we'd not only have to pay more for alternate sources of energy, taxes would rise to pay for the fines we'd undoubtedly accrue. I'm pretty sure we wouldn't meet the current conditions in the Kyoto Protocol no matter how much money and effort we'd throw at the issue.

    In my opinion, even though the US is one of the largest polluters, we as a nation are doing more to clean it up through technological discoveries, renewable energies, and other environmental projects. A treaty meant in good faith but only forces the US taxpayers to pay a fine in the end that could have been spent to help the environmental endeavor is no solution at all.

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    Did you ever go see the movie? LMAO X'D

    Wing Commander and Colony Wars were such great series. Its sad we don't see much of them anymore.

    Another fine example of a video game to movie debacle. ^_^: If you thought the movie was bad, you should have seen the cartoon series. That didn't last long at all.

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    I believe in disciplining children, but I'm talking about a slapped hand for taking a toy away from the sibling, smacked touchee for doing something inappropriate, or a tap on the cheeks if they said something bad. What this couple is accused of doing is far beyond the definition of discipline or even a beating; there is no fine line here.

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    http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#wwp

    What Works Are Protected?

    Copyright protects “original works of authorship” that are fixed in a tangible form of expression. The fixation need not be directly perceptible so long as it may be communicated with the aid of a machine or device. Copyrightable works include the following categories:

    1. literary works;
    2. musical works, including any accompanying words
    3. dramatic works, including any accompanying music
    4. pantomimes and choreographic works
    5. pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works
    6. motion pictures and other audiovisual works
    7. sound recordings
    8. architectural works

    These categories should be viewed broadly. For example, computer programs and most “compilations” may be registered as “literary works”; maps and architectural plans may be registered as “pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works.”

    http://creativecommons.org/

    Share, Remix, Reuse — Legally

    Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."

    We're a nonprofit organization. Everything we do — including the software we create — is free.

    I added the following copyright link to my website. All the legal mambo jumbo is written up by and linked to http://creativecommons.org/. I'd rather keep everything on my site, but somethings are easier and wiser handled by someone else. I'm debating about adding a field in my database to print the appropriate copyright information per page. I need the one below, any restrictions my friends may pose for their works, and an open gaming license added at some point.

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    All images and forms of writing at this site are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

    How do you copyright your stuff?

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